Is the market heading for a boom, a bust or something else entirely?
Friday's first panel at the 2015 SALT conference consisted of economists from all over the world. Matthew Bishop, globalization editor for the Economist, served as the panel moderator. Panelists included Jose Luis Daza, founder...

Larry Summers, Harvard Professor and member of the White House National Economic Council during the financial crisis, went head-to-head with Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan.
Sparing no niceties, Skybridge Managing Partner and Founder Anthony Scaramucci jumped right in, asking Summers, “...

Lawrence “Larry” Summers, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, former President of Harvard, and former Director of the White House United States National Economic Council, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box where he discussed the importance of building out infrastructure during a tepid economy.
“I...

IHS Chief Economist Dr. Nariman Behravesh and Federated Investors' Chief Equity Strategist Phil Orlando went over the possible market reactions to Larry Summers removing his name for chair of the Federal Reserve, just before the Federal Open Market Committee meeting this week, on CNBC's Squawk Box...

If people on both sides of the political aisle hate Lawrence Summers, then perhaps he's the right man for the job.
Summers dropped out of the race to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve because he thought getting confirmed would be a difficult battle as a number of Democrats in...

Have you ever woken up to find that a stock in your portfolio made a dramatic move overnight? Are you interested in learning how to understand each day's post-market and pre-market moves?
Veteran traders Joel Elconin and Dennis Dick will give you all of the insights that you'll need to get in on...

When there is no data to key off of, as has been the case so far this week, traders and their computers are basically left to on their own to ponder the big picture. And based on the action of the last four days, it doesn't appear that anyone is feeling especially optimistic right now.
One...

There are millions of tweets written every day. Benzinga sifts through the maelstrom of information to find the ten best tweets of the day that are either informative, insightful, or just down right comical.
1. Reuters Business
Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) tweeted an article about UBS's (NYSE:...

"A Summers chairmanship would bring with it more initial uncertainty; the markets know Yellen's views on monetary policy better than they know those of Summers," wrote Credit Suisse U.S. Economist Neal Soss this morning. For months, it was believed that current Vice-Chairwoman Janet Yellen would...

Last week, fears began to rise over the impending exit of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke from his current office.
However, for those in the know, the move does not come as a shock as it was previously known that his term ends in January at that President Obama had not offered him the option to stay on...